Taylor Porter Partner and Executive Committee Member Preston Castille has been named a Council Member of the Louisiana State Law Institute, ABA, House of Delegates. The LSLI is an official, advisory law revision commission, law reform agency and legal research agency of the State of Louisiana declared by the Legislature to promote and encourage the clarification and simplification of the law of Louisiana and its better adaptation to present social needs; to secure the better administration of justice and to carry on scholarly legal research and scientific legal work.

Castille joins fellow Taylor Porter attorneys who are also LSLI Council Members, including: Skip Philips, Managing Partner; Mary Hester, Partner; and Kelley Dick, Associate.

The Louisiana State Law Institute, originally authorized by the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, with its domicile at the Law School of that University, was chartered, created and organized as an official law revision commission, law reform agency and legal research agency of the State of Louisiana, by Act 166 of the Legislature of 1938 (Chapter 4 of Title 24 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950).

The governing authority of the Institute is vested in a Council consisting of ex-officio and elected members representative of the executive branch of the government, the legislature, the judiciary and the law-teaching and practicing professions. There is a general membership of over 400. The general membership meets at least once a year at the Institute's annual meeting and at other times on the call of the Council. In compliance with the Institute's legislative charter, the annual meeting is organized for scholarly discussions of current problems in Louisiana law and particularly the projects under consideration by the Council, and for bringing together representatives of the legislature, members of the bench and bar, and representatives of the law-teaching profession.

At Taylor Porter, Castille is engaged primarily in business litigation and transactions and assists clients with matters involving the Louisiana Legislature, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and other state and local governmental entities. He also serves as outside general counsel to numerous private, public, and governmental entities. 

Castille is active in various education-related organizations including New Schools for Baton Rouge and several charter school organizations. He served on the Greater Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce Business Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Chamber’s 1997 Leadership class and was selected in 2000 by the Baton Rouge Business Report as one of Baton Rouge’s “Top Forty Under 40” community and business leaders. Castille was a member of the 2012 Louisiana Leadership class sponsored by Council for a Better Louisiana (CABL).

Castille is an adjunct professor of law. He began his career as a law professor in 2001 at LSU Law School teaching Pretrial Litigation Practice and taught there for eight years. In 2003, he began teaching at Southern University Law School and teaches Louisiana Civil Procedure I & II and Evidence.

In 2011, Castille served as President of the Baton Rouge Bar Association and President of the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society from 1998-2000. He served on the Board of Governors of the Louisiana State Bar Association from 2001-2004 and as a member of the House of Delegates from 2009-2012.  He currently serves as a member of the National Conference of Bar Presidents.